August 2021
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Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics…
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Earlier this week I posted a story about snow falling in Brazil for the first time in many years. Accompanying that snow was cold temperatures and frost, which caused a lot of damage in the coffee-growing regions of southern Brazil. The damage was made worse because the coffee plants had already been stressed by drought…
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news -
The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most parts of the region will get little rain in the next week, which is sure to make farmers in most areas happy after all the rain we have been seeing. The wettest area will be the Florida peninsula and the Virginia and North Carolina coasts, especially in…
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In the past few years, the Southeast has experienced two different “flash” droughts (2016-2017 and 2019) These droughts are caused by a combination of almost complete lack of rain and hotter than usual temperatures. The droughts come on quickly and sometime disappear quickly too, but may morph into longer-term drought instead. Flash droughts are particularly…
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NOAA released a story about their latest monthly climate outlook earlier this week. You can read it at https://climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/august-2021-us-climate-outlook-rains-continue-across-southeast. Sadly, it does not look like much relief for the drought-stricken farmers in the west. That also means with the pattern locked in place, the Southeast is likely to continue to see wetter than normal conditions.…
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There are few changes to the Drought Monitor map this week, with nearly all the dry conditions confined to North Carolina and Virginia. The area of moderate (D1) drought in western Virginia expanded slightly and abnormally dry conditions in NC also grew a bit, but really not much change from last week. Not much change…
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NOAA released their updated outlook for the Atlantic hurricane season today. It shows that there is a 65% chance of an above-normal number of storms this season and only a 10% chance it will be less than normal. Considering how many storms we have already had (5), this is not a surprise. NOAA predicts 15-21…